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of the event and is keeping back [supplios "with a view to fancy prices. The submarins mensõe may be lifted, but, it's no' that you'd notics it in the butcher abopa.
Thosa who bare not the gastronomic machinary o' an ostrich will fall back on fish. But then again the herring fisherman are out on strike be- cause the Government will not control fish. In other words, they -want-a-guarantee that what they catch can be sold at a profit which will reimburse them for having re-fitted out their boala after more than four years o'minesweeping Mind ye, their catches of late
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That the Government will have to do something wi" this business, I've no doubt, for mind ye behind this matter o' supply and demand is a [at Mester question that will bave rfect long after the period of abnormally high prices bas passed. This is no a question of ash only but of fishermen, of our mercantile marine and naval power. Make the man wit the nets take to tramcar conducting or pig raising for a hobby and where will our navy be in a faw years time? No country can long retain a place as a foremost sea power which has not a strong reserve o material to draw upon and that material consists of the boys who play on our seashores and later on man our fishing boats and our trading vessels. That was the staff tha! put the breeze up the Spanish Armada and made British sea power what this. Take the Americans---bu: that reminds me.
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I think the only question which and the net result of the venture interests the British people wit is chaos, disease and starvation. regard to the election of the The very last place on earth in American President is how it which our ruthless theorists will inficence America's action
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thorough trial. Compulsory be a newspaperman. self-made, 16th June, 1920.
labour for scanty crusts ill suits hearty, sociable-like, and popular the gentry
are who
forever in Obio. If he is, he's the firs: Aye, some faint idea of the demanding more money for less newspaperman o his kind, and
to be something) heat experienced in the country work. So, no, we're no going to there last week can be gathered from the fact that a mason's laboureroas our pig by harming the wrong wi human nature in Obio. down. Frankness and But letting that fly stick to the honesty in politics can be found wa', it sounds a bit ominous to a report in the paper to-day :bs: a less costly method. mind I'm our ears that Mr. Harding is a
was actually seen to wipe his brow in his own time, and I see
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bis come into the peace than she took! theto come into the war. That is a in situation which none can con-
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This month has seen the price the wholesale murder trade maybe true enough. but I've an there's a fine opening for him in idea that if less politics were o oatmeal and postage up and the broking line. He's got the mixed wi' the dough they might the only other thing required to The flour make it a decent holiday at all is a cheek for it, right enough. But get better results! whether Bolshevism is at last an we're to get from Russia would rise in temperature. Aye. it's the down grade or no, it's been improve matters, they say. Maybejtuppence for every letter now, an all to the good that British it would, but in the meantime grange tuppenny instead of a Labour bas been allowed to ferre: we've got to eat, and unless we brown three-ha' penny. For one out the Russian mystery for want to be a C.3.. pepsin-gumthing it will help to put a stop to itself. Its delegates are back to chewing nation for the rest of our the reprehensible practice of some the fold again anyway and while unnatural lives, the sooner the folks of writing innumerable chits they speak cautiously wi their quality of the staff of life takes on the slightest provocation and LANE,
own Bolsheviks, torn for the better, the more demanding equally unnecessary Wi some folks on- eyes on our they've put it plainly enough that chance we'll have o' making a replies. they have no particular liking for collection of sugar bowls and answered letters seem to be on Bolshevism, and, what's more cruet-stands at our golden wed-the conscience worse than a hard- forbye, they've let out that itding celebration. won't work here. I think that
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Berenons a nos moutons used to Bat there'll be less of this sort of epistles announcing his function Spanish Prisoner.
thing in the future but no, I'm here below o' supplying £20,000 on postage business will be a big while in Russia they've no been be familar and harmless enough told, to the detriment o' the Post our own nots of hand, merely to handicap in his effort to recover over temporary financial the money in yon valise (ying- able to dissemble their dissp-phrase but to-day it is even worse
These increased lying-aye that's it lying. pointment at what they saw and than it sounds. If there is one Office. The question here crops tide that's been why Lenin sent them article o food sold by the butcher Up whether the higher price got difficulty.
Yours etc. back wi' a flea in their ear in the which raises and at the some by the Post Office for each letter, charges are going to hit him
R. Mc. W shape of his now famous letter in time binders the family gorge it when multiplied by the reduced heavy and his cheery which be bluntly expresses his is the modern-up-to-date Canter-number of letters, is going to be will now be few. and far between. more or less than the sum realis Then there's the sport wi' the poor opinion of British Labour bury lamb, newly let loose fromed by & larger number of letters heart of gold who would sell you leaders wi' their "sweetened re-cold storage. It baffles descrip- solutions" and "bourgeoise praja-tion, for by the time you've at the old price. I've forgotten stable secrets by post at so much dices." But the insult shouldn't thawed the frost bite out of it, it the answer but it's much worse per. His good work will be much rankle, for mach the same thing has no taste unless it's tainted, than you would expect, onyway. curtailed, which will be hard on I'm afraid that this increase in his system, for training secrets has been said of the moderates and that's frequent. All the con- by the extremists at home. But, diments of the East couldna the postal rates is going to be are terrible hard, things to keep you believe me, the facts are wi' make it palateable. But I hear bad for trade. Aye, the Post bottled up. Love letters in the the moderates every time. The you ask: What of the wee Office is going the right way about days of HCL. will also be a bit
bard to collect for a certain the 1st Battalion of the King's wild men of Labour are out to lammies skipping on the les ? to discourage lote o their best strain and make evidence He was second in command of smash what they are pleased to Ah! Beef controls to be lifted customers.
Take for instance the gentle specific purpose. But I'm most Own Light Infantry at Singapore. call the capitalist system. Lenin next month and as usua) Giles and Co. have already dope that has obligingly given lang notice man who sends the time-honoured sorry for our old friend the when the war opened.
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